CWIS Overview

Features

The Collection Workflow Integration System (CWIS, pronounced see-wis) is free, open source software designed to assemble, organize, and share collections of data about resources. CWIS conforms to international and academic standards for metadata. CWIS was created to help build collections of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) resources and connect them to NSF's National Science Digital Library and other STEM education channels. However, the software can be (and is being) used for a wide variety of other purposes.

CWIS also has functionality (PHP) separated from appearance (HTML), making it relatively easy to customize for your own site. CWIS functionality is also readily extendable, via a wide array of plugins.

Requirements

CWIS requires a web server that supports PHP and MySQL. The software is designed to run on a LAMP (Linux / Apache / MySQL / PHP) platform, but is also being run in the field on OS X, Solaris, and FreeBSD. For more specific requirements for the current version, see the Downloads page.